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The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child 2000:
Iqbal Masih

Iqbal Masih was a bonded-debt-slave in Pakistan and one of 250 million working children in the world. Today, he is a symbol throughout the world for the fight against child labour. In the year 2000, the first The World's Children's Prize, was awarded posthumously to Iqbal.

Commemorative prizes were also awarded to Anne Frank and Hector Pieterson. The Prize also bears an subtitle in tribute to Iqbal's memory: The Iqbal Masih Award for The Rights of the Child.

	Iqbal Masih, Pakistan, has been nominated posthumously (after his death) as WCPRC Decade Child Rights Hero 2009, for his struggle for the rights of debt slave children.

Children celebrating Iqbal for winning the first WCPRC.

They left their wooden writing boards at home and came in the hundreds from all of Pakistan's provinces to celebrate that "their" Iqbal had been honoured with the first World's Children's Prize.